ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIETARY HABITS AND DAILY LIVING ACTIVITIES AMONG CHILDREN WITH LEUKEMIA
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Abstract
Objectives: To Assess the Dietary Habits and the Daily Living Activities Regarding Children with Leukemia. To find out the association between Dietary Habits and Daily Living Activities Regarding Children with Leukemia. To find out the association between Dietary Habits and Daily Living Activity Regarding Leukemic Children with their socio-demographic characteristic.
Methodology: A “Descriptive (Cross sectional) study” was conducted in three hospitals Holy Karbala Health Department, Karbala Children's Teaching Hospital and Imam Hassan Al-Mujtaba Teaching Hospital on children with Leukemia in Holy Karbala City between the period of (22 June 2022) to (26 January 2024).
Results: The study revealed a significant positive correlation between the dietary habits of children with leukemia and their daily living activities. Conclusion: The effect of dietary habits can be summarized in that children treated with chemotherapy eat meals of average quality and small quantity. Which negatively affects children's daily life activities. Recommendations: The team of health care providers in hospitals must focus on improving the dietary Habits, its diversity, and the number of main meals that the child eats to provide him with energy and growth, encourage sick children to rely on themselves for their special needs, and provide detailed scientific information about the disease in an appropriate way of explanation to the children’s parents.